From my initial concept I wrote a rough narrative for my character. So as not to harm my creative journey I kept it quite open ended, not going into too much detail – I’ll explore the specifics in my drawings.
Here’s my short narrative:
On a stormy evening a carriage races down a thin cliff face track – a pack of wolves in hot pursuit. With a jolt the carriage partially swerves off the road spilling a number of its contents, including an intricately decorated cot; down it fell into the cluster of trees below.
The cot fell a great distance, thankfully cushioned by the forest canopy. Inside, there lay a child – fever stricken and missing an arm (a feature from birth). The child was happened upon the forests protector and their spirit companions – to save it one of the spirits grafted itself together with a branch to the small person. From that day forward the child was raised by the spirits and animals of the forest becoming one of its prominent guardians.
Together with the forest spirit in their wooden arm the druid defends the great wood from anyone who would do it harm.
From this I developed a number of rough sketches, exploring silhouette, shape and form.
I developed a few of these rough sketches further – out of these I’ll be going forward with one.
I did some more detailed sketches of the wood prosthetic as this is supposed to be the main hook of the character.
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